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Ferguson, Susan; LeBaron, Genevieve; Dimitrakaki, Angela; Farris, Sara R.

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“…Research into struggles over urban natures and their place in the valorization of the built environment can benefit from the kinds of questions that animate the revivified contemporary interest in social reproduction (i.e. Andrucki et al, 2017;Bhattacharya, 2017;Ferguson et al, 2016;Katz, 2017;Parish and Montsion, 2018;Ruddick et al, 2018). Initially developed by Marxist Feminists in the 1970s and 1980s, social reproduction seeks to understand the specificity of women's oppression under capitalism, and to contest the marginalization of women and domestic labour in studies of political economy.…”

Section: Environmental Gentrification As Social Reproductionmentioning

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“…Initially developed by Marxist Feminists in the 1970s and 1980s, social reproduction seeks to understand the specificity of women's oppression under capitalism, and to contest the marginalization of women and domestic labour in studies of political economy. Social reproduction theory challenges the narrowness of an exclusive focus on production and highlights 'naturalized' forms of unwaged and/or under-valued feminized labour that perform the essential task of reproducing, on a daily and generational basis, the labour force upon which capital depends (Ferguson et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Re-wilding Parkdale? Environmental gentrification, settler colonialism, and the reconfiguration of nature in 21st century Toronto

Parish

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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In 21st century Toronto, the labour of caring for urban trees is entangled with both gentrification processes and the social reproduction of settler colonial space. This paper contributes to the study of environmental gentrification through a study of the social reproduction of settler colonial relations to land in the Parkdale–High Park area of Toronto. Specifically, I take up the hyper-visibility of some forms of social reproduction, in order to shed light on how the mundane, quotidian ‘non-work’ of living in/with/for capitalism becomes a site of privilege and a luxury pursuit for more affluent residents. The paper highlights the processes and practices whereby settler colonial urban subjects seek out ‘nature’ as a temporary outside where they can escape from widely accepted downsides of capitalist urbanism, including a diverse array of social and physical ills, from stress, to obesity, to ecological degradation. The paper asks: whose social reproduction does the presence of urban trees serve? In the context of 21st century financialized gentrification, cities are increasingly normalized as spaces of wealth and luxury. It is therefore crucial to pay attention to the raced, gendered, and colonial micro-politics through which urban ecologies are transformed in the service of an anti-democratic vision of the city as a space of leisure and luxury.

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Section: Environmental Gentrification As Social Reproductionmentioning

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Re-wilding Parkdale? Environmental gentrification, settler colonialism, and the reconfiguration of nature in 21st century Toronto

Parish

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…Unfreedom for women is, further, framed by the inner-connection between capitalism and patriarchy. Capitalist reproduction requires the production and reproduction of labour power, and while most goods and services necessary for this task are commodifiedrequiring therefore the performance of alienated labour -domestic labour and the process of social reproduction itself is still largely confined to the private sphere, unpaid, and performed primarily by women on top of their participation in the labour market (Bezanson and Luxton, 2006;Ferguson et al, 2016). Capitalist social relations are thus, by their very nature, a barrier to our freedom.…”

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Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and Unfree Labour

Gordon

2018

Critical Sociology

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The literature on the unfree character of temporary migrant labour has drawn much needed attention to the poor working conditions faced by migrant workers and opened up an important space to challenge those ubiquitous claims by defenders of the current political-economic status quo of the freedom expressed at the core of neoliberalism. However, there is a risk to focusing on legal unfreedom to the exclusion of a broader critique of the logic of capitalist reproduction, the very premise of which is the private ownership of society’s productive wealth and the alienation of the majority of people from that wealth. Unfreedom and coercion are systematic to capitalist market relations, and all wage labour, including that of formally ‘free’, is unfree. This article examines different conceptions of labour unfreedom and concludes with a discussion of unfree labour in the neoliberal context.

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“…This article describes cleaning practices of only four women, taken from a larger PhD research project aiming to explore the classed and gendered subjects produced through practices of social reproduction, or ‘the activities associated with the maintenance and reproduction of people’s lives on a daily and intergenerational basis’ (Ferguson, LeBaron, Dimitrakaki, & Farris, 2016, pp. 27–28).…”

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Uncomfortable stains: Cleaning labour, class positioning and moral worth among working-class Chilean women

Álvarez-López¹

2019

The Sociological Review

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This article explores ethnographically the ways in which working-class elderly and mature women position themselves in class and gender terms through the cleaning practices they carry out in their own households. Following contemporary research, it understands domestic labour as a site of production and negotiation of classed, gendered and ‘raced’ subject positions. Scholars researching on paid domestic labour have emphasised cleaning labour as devalued; however, this article argues that the unpaid cleaning labour the women carry out in their own households might become a source of self-worth. It does so by briefly depicting how the twentieth-century Chilean modernisation and processes of class formation were coupled with an emphasis on hygiene and cleanliness. It also provides an ethnographic description of working-class women’s cleaning practices, attending to the classed and gendered meanings and value the women attach to these practices, and discussing their negotiation of expected standards in relation to material conditions and the multiple demands and values of everyday life. It shows that the margin of negotiation is much reduced when the results of cleaning practices are more open to public view. It also argues that the women not only express their subjectivities through everyday negotiations of cleaning standards, but also produce particular modes of being working-class women.

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Cited by 37 publications

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Re-wilding Parkdale? Environmental gentrification, settler colonialism, and the reconfiguration of nature in 21st century Toronto

Re-wilding Parkdale? Environmental gentrification, settler colonialism, and the reconfiguration of nature in 21st century Toronto

Capitalism, Neoliberalism, and Unfree Labour

Uncomfortable stains: Cleaning labour, class positioning and moral worth among working-class Chilean women

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